# Adding ‘hot topics’ to the Sidebar

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-hot-topics-to-the-sidebar/321777
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** sidebar, hot-topics
**Created:** [August 15, 2024, 8:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-hot-topics-to-the-sidebar/321777 "2024-08-15T08:51:07Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-hot-topics-to-the-sidebar/321777/4 "2024-08-15T09:29:20Z")

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You can hide the Categories and Tags sections - the [Navigation (sidebar) menu display control](https://meta.discourse.org/t/navigation-sidebar-menu-display-control/277687) theme component gets you part-way by hiding them from everyone but staff users, or you could create a custom theme component that hides them from everyone including staff. But there isn’t a way to populate the left sidebar with a ‘hot topics’ section that would list the x hot topics from today/this week. You could create a custom section and manually update it with links to topics, but that is likely going to be a chore to keep on top of.

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